TOKYO, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) — China Festival 2023 kicked off in Yoyogi Park in downtown Tokyo on Saturday to commemorate the forty fifth anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship and to advertise people-to-people exchanges between China and Japan.
The two-day occasion is co-sponsored by the Chinese embassy in Japan and the Executive Committee of China Festival 2023, that includes greater than 80 cubicles on website, together with China Cultural Center, China National Tourism Office in Tokyo and China Enterprises Association in Japan, with the purpose of offering a platform for pleasant exchanges between the individuals of the 2 international locations by way of cultural show, meals tasting, tourism promotion, and many others.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao, Japan’s ruling coalition occasion Komeito chief Yamaguchi Natsuo and different company attended the opening ceremony of the occasion and delivered speeches.
Fukuda, additionally the highest advisor of the Executive Committee of China Festival 2023, stated the China Festival is getting bigger and bigger and is turning into increasingly more common among the many individuals, expressing his hope that by way of the occasion everybody may absolutely expertise Chinese tradition and go on the friendship between Japan and China.
Wu stated that China Festival is a model occasion collectively created by the Chinese embassy in Japan, Japan-China friendship teams and abroad Chinese, which has obtained vast consideration and robust help from all walks of life in each international locations over time and has performed a constructive function in selling people-to-people exchanges between China and Japan.
Noting that this yr marks the forty fifth anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Wu stated that 45 years in the past, the treaty stipulated in regulation that China and Japan ought to develop lasting peaceable and pleasant relations, establishing timeless and enduring rules and instructions for bilateral exchanges.
We welcome extra Japanese mates to go to China, take a look, observe the event and modifications in up to date China, and expertise the vitality of Chinese society, stated the ambassador.
During the occasion, many Japanese individuals have skilled China’s environmentally pleasant electrical autos and sensible dwelling home equipment. Meanwhile, actors and artists from China and Japan will current greater than 20 distinctive performances reminiscent of erhu and martial arts.